British Olympic champion and Sheffield United fan Jessica Ennis-Hill has announced that she would want her name removed from a stand at Bramall Lane if the club were to re-sign convicted rapist Ched Evans.

American Casey Martin, who made history in 1998 by being allowed to use a golf cart to play in the US Open, will be back at the Olympic Club in San Francisco next week after winning a qualifying event.

After four days of racing at the Laser World Championships in Germany, Irish sailor James Espey from Ballyholme Yacht Club in Belfast Lough achieved Olympic qualification when he made the Gold fleet on day four of the event.

Michael O'Reilly cruised into the last 16 of the AIBA World Youth Championships after producing a superb performance to beat Cuban lightweight and current World Junior and Intercontinental champion Yunior Boleri in Baku, Azerbaijan, today.